On 2006-03-17 at 06:58GMT Aaron Denney wrote:
> On 2006-03-17, Donald Bruce Stewart <dons at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> > Well, there is a way -- it's fairly easy with the right regex -- but
> > is it really ambiguous? Do people find it confusing? What do other sites do?
>> Why not the ISO standard YYYY-MM-DD?
Surely. This is, after all, an international effort.
I can't see why people don't just use this format in
general, nowadays. Certainly it makes sense to use it in
any context where the nationality of the reader is unknown.
Jón
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